Black Voters Present Test For Candidate

At a forum for mayoral candidates in Jamaica, Queens, last week, some of the loudest cheers from the overwhelmingly black audience came not just for the only black candidate on stage, former city Comptroller Bill Thompson, but for the first Asian-American elected to citywide office, current Comptroller John Liu.

The crowd applauded loudly, too, when Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who is white but married to a black woman, voiced...